Word: abstract
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Furthermore, according to Moravcsik, any conflict such as this brings abstract conflicts to life for students...
Furthermore, according to Moravcsik, any conflict such as this brings abstract conflicts to life for students...
...real war cannot be as abstract as the one we're waging now. If the U.S. continues to fight with its stronger arm tied behind its back, it won't win this war. We might exhaust Milosevic's resistance and he might allow himself to be governed by international justice, but we won't truly win the war. When we devote our military to Kosovo, we have to devote all our passions and energies to the fight. Only by fighting with conviction will we win the war and protect the Kosovar's "autonomy" and "peace...
...continues as well; just in the five years since we marked the last anniversary, controversy over the takeover was reignited when former Dunster House Senior Tutor Roger Rosenblatt published hisComing Apart, a memoir of Harvard at the time of the takeover. Like so much of the 1960's--the abstract concept of "the sixties" is condemned by conservatives as the root of every problem from drug abuse to the Clinton presidency and praised by liberals as the heyday of the civil rights movement--University Hall has been inflated to near-mythic status...
...albums for the label--most long unavailable--is proof she could hold her own in such rarefied company. Her virtues: a voice nearly as pure and clear as Ella Fitzgerald's, yet spiked at times with a smoky, un-Ella-like sensuality; and a deeply personal, even abstract sense of phrasing. How can you not like a singer who's brassy enough to belt Summertime as hard as if it were Hit the Road Jack and nervy enough to tackle a vocal version of Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman...